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4 Replies ・ Started by Natalia20 at 2023-06-24 22:10:52 UTC ・ Last reply by Leebo at 2023-06-25 13:00:23 UTC

Suffix 子 (し)

According to Jisho, 子 (し) can be used as a suffix with meaning "-er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing ...)​". However, I can't find any example with this suffix.

Could you please give me an example or some if possible with suffix 子 (し)?

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Leebo at 2023-06-25 00:00:40 UTC

The two examples I found in a monolingual dictionary were 編集子 and コラム子. They both happen to be related to publishing, which suggests you can't just append this to things willy-nilly.

monolingual dictionary entry for 子 (し) https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E5%AD%90

編集子 - https://jisho.org/word/%E7%B7%A8%E9%9B%86%E5%AD%90
コラム子 - https://jisho.org/word/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0%E5%AD%90

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Natalia20 at 2023-06-25 09:55:56 UTC

Thanks a lot for your answer.

I also happened to find precisely those two examples in Goo dictionary as well, but when trying to understand better those words, I saw that 編集子 is not really a person as Jisho suggests, but a pen name used by several 編集者.

https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B7%A8%E9%9B%86%E5%AD%90

So 編集子 would not fit as a example for suffix 子 (し) with the meaning "-er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)​" that Jisho points out it has.

And about コラム子, when looking for it on Google, I can hardly find this word used at any place, so I really wonder if it is real Japanese. I mostly can find websites where the components コラム and 子 are not actually together as a whole word, but separared.

Then, if possible, could you please help me to find other examples of suffix 子 (し) with meaning "-er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing ...)​"?

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Leebo at 2023-06-25 12:57:59 UTC

You say it doesn't qualify, but I took it from the monolingual dictionary I linked. It says:

1 名詞に付いて、そのことをもっぱら行う男性の意を表す。「編集—」「コラム—」

So, I guess take it up with the dictionary? They think it counts.

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Leebo at 2023-06-25 13:00:23 UTC

And given how hard it is to find other examples, I'm pretty sure it's just not that common.

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